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Cognitive performance in community-dwelling English- and Spanish-speaking seniors.

OBJECTIVES to examine the association of language (English vs Spanish), and commonly used measures of memory and word fluency among older adults. DESIGN cross-sectional. SETTING community-based settings in New York City, including senior centres and residential complexes. SUBJECTS four hundred and twenty independently living adults aged 60 or older (mean 73.8 years). METHODS participant...

A comparison of general practice encounters with patients from English-speaking and non-English-speaking backgrounds.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether doctor-patient encounters in general practice with patients from a non-English-speaking background (NESB) differ from encounters with patients of English-speaking background (ESB) in terms of the type of practice where the encounters occur and the type of problems managed. DESIGN AND SETTING A national cross-sectional survey of GP-patient encounters from a sampl...

Health services utilisation disparities between English speaking and non-English speaking background Australian infants

BACKGROUND To examine the differences in health services utilisation and the associated risk factors between infants from non-English speaking background (NESB) and English speaking background (ESB) within Australia. METHODS We analysed data from a national representative longitudinal study, the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) which started in 2004. We used survey logistic re...

Phonological skills in predominantly English-speaking, predominantly Spanish-speaking, and Spanish-English bilingual children.

PURPOSE There is a paucity of information detailing the phonological skills of Spanish-English bilingual children and comparing that information to information concerning the phonological skills of predominantly English-speaking (PE) and predominantly Spanish-speaking (PS) children. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between amount of output (i.e., percentage of time each...